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Bringing Back the Beasts: Global Rewilding Plans Take Shape

Yale E360

With a growing number of studies demonstrating the importance of large mammals to healthy ecosystems, scientists are proposing concrete plans to reintroduce these animals to the wild. The return of just 20 species to native habitats, they say, could be a boon to biodiversity. Read more on E360 ?.

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The Supreme Court’s Latest Decision Is a Blow to Stopping Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

The Supreme Court’s decision in the case known as West Virginia et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency et al. is a serious blow to the EPA’s ability to fight climate change—and could have dangerous repercussions beyond this case. The timing of the decision feels especially harsh, as the nation is in the throes of the “ Danger Season ” for hazards such as heat waves, drought, wildfires and hurricanes, all worsened by climate change.

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Redwood and Cloverly Partner to Provide Freight Emissions Visibility and Access to Carbon Credits

Environment + Energy Leader

Redwood Logistics and Cloverly are partnering to help customers gain visibility into freight emissions and offset them with carbon credits in a single platform. The post Redwood and Cloverly Partner to Provide Freight Emissions Visibility and Access to Carbon Credits appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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FOOD THINGS: VERMICOMPOSTING

Cleannovate

Everytime we sit down to eat food, we must remember that food scraps have been generated in the process. More often than not, these scraps are disposed in the dustbin or in black trash bags. But what if we choose to see this waste differently? VERMICOMPOSTING. For ages, before the advent of mineral fertilisers, our forefathers utilised a soil creature so effectively in boosting soil fertility.

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How to Drive Cost Savings, Efficiency Gains, and Sustainability Wins with MES

Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions

Is your manufacturing operation reaching its efficiency potential? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could be the game-changer, helping you reduce waste, cut costs, and lower your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions, in this value-packed webinar as he breaks down how MES can drive operational excellence and sustainability.

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Once Facing Extinction, Massive Fin Whales Have Returned to Antarctic Waters

Yale E360

After being driven to the brink of extinction, fin whales, the second-largest creatures on Earth, have returned to their ancestral feeding grounds around the Antarctic Peninsula. Read more on E360 ?.

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Ontario can’t build Highway 413…yet 

Enviromental Defense

The fight to stop Highway 413 isn’t over – it’s just beginning. . Despite running on a platform to pave over a chunk of the Greenbelt and thousands of acres of prime farmland, the re-elected Ontario government can’t start building Highway 413…yet. That’s because just over a year ago, the Federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change designated Highway 413 under the Impact Assessment Act.

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New Study Identifies Rapidly Emerging Threats to Oceans

Inside Climate News

The push to extract materials and food from the oceans at industrial scale menaces vulnerable communities and biodiversity. By Rachel Rodriguez, Bob Berwyn A globe-spanning study published Thursday outlines new, potentially unexpected threats to ocean ecosystems and vulnerable coastal communities within the next five to 10 years that will come on top of the already harmful effects of overfishing, pollution and global warming.

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Alaska Is on Track for a Record Fire Season

Yale E360

Alaska is on pace for a historic fire season, spurred on by warm temperatures, a diminished snowpack, and an apparent uptick in lightning strikes. Fires have ripped through 2 million acres so far this year, roughly 10 times the total area burned in all of 2021. Read more on E360 ?.

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The Stream, July 6, 2022: Which Western States Are On the Hook for Cutting Water Use?

Circle of Blue

Lake Powell. Photo © J. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN. Colorado’s top water official weighs in the responsibility lower Colorado River Basin states have in cutting water use. A new study links childhood diarrheal disease with drought exposure in low-and-middle-income countries. India’s major reservoirs sit at critically low levels even as monsoon rains pummel parts of the country.

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Researchers produce first in vivo images of brain inflammation using MRI

Physics World

Imaging inflammation: MR images of a brain overlaid with the stick fraction, an MRI measure associated with microglia activation. (Courtesy: Silvia De Santis). Chronic inflammation of the brain is linked to a range of increasingly common degenerative brain diseases, such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Evidence suggests that neuroinflammation contributes to the progression and worsening of such diseases.

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The Key to Sustainable Energy Optimization: A Data-Driven Approach for Manufacturing

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. ♻️ Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets. 📊 Join us for a practical webinar hosted by Kevin Kai Wong of Emergent Ene

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Terradepth Offloads Data from the Ocean Depths – While Managing Its Environmental Footprint

Environment + Energy Leader

Gathering immersive, ocean data via autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) can assist with projects in sectors such as clean energy and national security. And they do it with little disruption to the natural ocean environment – AUVs can be deployed and managed in such a way that makes the gathering of data minimally invasive and with a very small carbon footprint.

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Brazil's High Court First to Declare Paris Agreement a Human Rights Treaty

Yale E360

In a global first, Brazil's supreme court has declared the Paris Climate Agreement a human rights treaty. Within Brazil, the court ruled, the climate pact should supersede national law. Read more on E360 ?.

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Wondering How States Will Respond to West Virginia v. EPA? Massachusetts Provides An Early Answer

Law and Environment

Those wondering what states can do to at least partially ameliorate the impacts of West Virginia v. EPA need look no farther than Massachusetts, which issued its Clean Energy and Climate Plan for 2025 and 2030 the same day that the Supreme Court extended its crusade against the modern world by limiting EPA’s authority to regulate in the absence of a clear delegation by Congress.

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Axial Higgs mode spotted in materials at room temperature

Physics World

An axial Higgs mode has been spotted within the collective quantum excitations of a solid material. Kenneth Burch at Boston College and colleagues in the US and China, discovered the quasiparticle cousin of the Higgs boson in a relatively simple tabletop experiment carried out at room temperature. In 2012, the discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider confirmed a prediction made nearly 50 years earlier about the mechanism by which some fundamental particles acquire mass.

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Implementing D.E.J.I. Strategies in Energy, Environment, and Transportation

Speaker: Antoine M. Thompson, Executive Director of the Greater Washington Region Clean Cities Coalition

Diversity, Equity, Justice, and Inclusion (DEJI) policies, programs, and initiatives are critically important as we move forward with public and private sector climate and sustainability goals and plans. Underserved and socially, economically, and racially disadvantaged communities bear the burden of pollution, higher energy costs, limited resources, and limited investments in the clean energy and transportation sectors.

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Worley Acquires Minera to Improve Mining Sustainability

Environment + Energy Leader

Worley is acquiring Minera Mining Technologies to help improve mining operations and sustainability. The post Worley Acquires Minera to Improve Mining Sustainability appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Exculpatory Clause Does Not Save Operator From Liability

Energy & the Law

Co-author Trevor Lawhorn. Non-operators under the 1989 Model Form JOA have been hoping to drive a stake through the dark heart of Reeder v. Wood County Energy, LLC. Bachtell Enterprises, LLC v. Ankor E&P Holdings Corp might be a start. The question was whether the Article V.A. exculpatory clause exonerated the operator who intentionally passed expenses to non-operators without their consent.

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How to understand your inner voice and control your inner critic

New Scientist

Most of us have a voice inside our heads and it can be caring, supportive, negative or critical.

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Magnetic fields can turn medical waste into high-value products

Physics World

Alternating magnetic fields can be used to rapidly convert medical waste, such as plastic syringes, into hydrogen-rich gases and high-quality graphite, scientists in China have found. This catalytic technique is more environmentally friendly and less energy intensive than other waste management strategies, the researchers claim. It might also help us dispose of other types of medical waste such as masks and protective clothing.

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Shaping a Resilient Future: Climate Impact on Vulnerable Populations

Speaker: Laurie Schoeman Director, Climate & Sustainability, Capital

As households and communities across the nation face challenges such as hurricanes, wildfires, drought, extreme heat and cold, and thawing permafrost and flooding, we are increasingly searching for ways to mitigate and prevent climate impacts. During this event, national climate and housing expert Laurie Schoeman will discuss topics including: The two paths for climate action: decarbonization and adaptation.

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Bees’ ‘waggle dance’ may revolutionize how robots talk to each other in disaster zones

Frontiers

By Conn Hastings, science writer. Image credit: rtbilder / Shutterstock.com. Honeybees use a sophisticated dance to tell their sisters about the location of nearby flowers. This phenomenon forms the inspiration for a form of robot-robot communication that does not rely on digital networks. A recent study presents a simple technique whereby robots view and interpret each other’s movements or a gesture from a human to communicate a geographical location.

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10 Weird Australian Marsupials You’ve Never Heard Of

Cool Green Science

“So have you seen a kangaroo?” It’s one of the first things that my fellow Americans ask me upon hearing that I live in Australia. Yes, I’ve seen a kangaroo. “What about a koala?” Yes, I have one in my… The post 10 Weird Australian Marsupials You’ve Never Heard Of appeared first on Cool Green Science.

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AI can convert almost any 3D scene into the style of a famous artwork

New Scientist

Artificial intelligence can transfer artistic styles onto a 3D scene, including turning a bulldozer into the style of Van Gogh’s The Starry Night painting

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The Higgs boson discovery revisited

Physics World

Everyone knew something big was coming. Students had camped outside CERN ’s designated seminar hall overnight in the hope of grabbing one of the few unreserved seats. Finally, on the morning of 4 July 2012, the suspense was ended. Spokespeople for the large hadron collider’s two general purpose experiments, ATLAS and CMS , confirmed the rumours: both experimental teams had detected a “Higgs-like particle” and the masses were very similar.

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Sustainability at Retail

Sustainability impacts every nation, company, and person around the world. So much so that, in 2015, the United Nations (UN) issued a call for action by all countries to work toward sustainable development. In response to this and as part of a global Sustainability at Retail initiative, Shop! worked collaboratively with its global affiliates to address these critical issues in this white paper.

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Building blocks for RNA-based life abound at center of our galaxy

Frontiers

By Mischa Dijkstra, Frontiers science writer. Scientists here study the spectra from G+0.693-0.027, a molecular cloud near the center of the Milky Way. They detect a range of nitriles, key building blocks for RNA, including cyanoallene, propargyl cyanide, cyanopropyne, and possibly cyanoformaldehyde and glycolonitrile, none of which had previously been found in G+0.693-0.027.

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York Region passes illegal Official Plan, testing Ontario Government’s commitment to not “touch” the Greenbelt

Enviromental Defense

ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE, STOP SPRAWL YORK REGION. One third of Council votes against the Plan. Toronto | Traditional territories of the Huron-Wendat, the Anishnaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Chippewas and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation – After a complex series of last-minute motions and closed-door sessions last Thursday that made it difficult for Councillors – let alone residents – to discern what was being debated, York Region appears to have presented Minister of Municipal Affairs, Steve Cl

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AI can use your brainwaves to see things that you can't

New Scientist

A computer algorithm can use a technique called "ghost imaging" to reconstruct objects from a person's brainwaves that the person themselves can't see

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Research fieldwork comes with safety challenges

Environmental News Bits

by Lisa Sheppard, Prairie Research Institute Prairie Research Institute (PRI) researchers and technicians may not know exactly which hazards they’ll face when they conduct fieldwork to study the natural world. What they do know is that there are plenty of dangers to prepare for as they start another field season. “The safety aspects of being … Continue reading Research fieldwork comes with safety challenges.

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Unforced Variations: July 2022

Real Climate

This month’s open thread. Please keep to climate-related issues, stay substantive, no abuse, no repetition, one-comment per day. The post Unforced Variations: July 2022 first appeared on RealClimate.

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Tracks of my tears: the true meaning of Peter Higgs’ emotion at CERN in 2012

Physics World

Crying eyes Peter Higgs on 4 July 2012. (Courtesy: CERN). Nobody who has seen the images will forget Peter Higgs’ watery eyes. Captured at CERN’s main auditorium on 4 July 2012, the video shows the British theoretical physicist holding a tissue as lab bosses announce that the Higgs boson has been discovered. Higgs, who was then 83, has welled up and removes his glasses to daub his face.

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A passing star shifting Neptune’s orbit could wreck the solar system

New Scientist

If a star flying past our solar system moved Neptune's orbit by just 0.

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Sea Birds to See in Florida

Ocean Conservancy

“Florida and beaches” are like “peanut butter and jelly”—they just go together, a match made in heaven. Between the soft sand, unique seashells, warm waters and fascinating ocean animals, there are so many things to love about Florida beaches. One of the best perks to walking along a Florida shoreline is simple: sea birds. Florida is known as an amazing state for bird watching with a multitude of species that live there, but you don’t have to be a hard knocks bird watcher to catch a glimpse of a

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Good, Better, Best: Reducing Your Transportation Carbon Footprint

Earth 911

This is the first in a series of five articles that help you find ways. The post Good, Better, Best: Reducing Your Transportation Carbon Footprint appeared first on Earth911.

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In the US West, Researchers Consider a Four-Legged Tool to Fight Two Foes: Wildfire and Cheatgrass

Inside Climate News

Targeted grazing could reduce an invasive grass that has fueled an explosion of wildfires and threatens native species. But it’s not a silver bullet. By Emma Foehringer Merchant Cheatgrass first spread across the U.S. West in the 1800s, carried by settlers and in contaminated seed and straw. The spikey, droopy, almost hairy plant spreads like a weed, chokes out native grasses, and, once dry, lights up like kindling.